Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector

By Andreas Kopp, Rachel I. Block and Atsushi Iimi

Transport provides access to public services for the poor, opens up trade opportunities, and maximizes the
benefits of urbanization: the mobility of people and goods drives development. So how can we protect the
role of transport in times of scarcer fuels, costly and harmful carbon emissions, and the rising threat of
extreme weather events? This is the central question that this book seeks to answer.

'Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector' finds that adopting
new vehicle technologies and alternative fuels will not be enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions from
transport: new patterns of mobility will also be needed. In developing countries where past infrastructure
investments have not yet locked in particular transport modes, there is an opportunity to contain emissions
by harnessing low-emission modes of transport. The book argues that the transition to low-carbon mobility
is not only urgently needed if economies are to avoid becoming locked into high-carbon growth, but is also
affordable. It outlines how countries can combine policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with broader
sector reforms that generate new fiscal resources to finance the transition in addition to carbon financing
and international assistance.

'Turning the Right Corner: Ensuring Development through a Low-Carbon Transport Sector' will be of interest to
policy makers, academics, and development practitioners with an interest in transport. It will help decision
makers better understand how to contain the transport sector's contribution to climate change and protect
transport infrastructure and services from severe weather events.

• Language: English
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Release date: Jul 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9780821398357

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